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中継ぎ[なかつぎ] (nakatsugi)

relay, go-between, relief pitcher

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Meaning

中継ぎ (なかつぎ, nakatsugi) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “relay, go-between, relief pitcher”.

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Example sentences 11

彼かれは中継なかつぎのピッチャーです

He is a middle-relief pitcher.

中継ぎとしての女帝の存在が江戸期にも見られる。

There were some examples of female Emperors that temporarily succeeded to the throne in the Edo period.

自身を中継ぎとすることで直系に復する構図である。

This is the scheme employed to recover the direct line succession, by putting himself as a transit emperor.

中継ぎとして即位した妹・元明天皇を激励する歌が万葉集にある。

There is a poem in the Manyoshu encouraging the younger sister, Empress Genmei, who ascended the throne as an interim successor.

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